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Zhen opened the door to the training hall, stepping in on the commotion that was going on inside.

"Hey you two," Zhen said energetically, falling to a lean against the door as she took in the scene, "What'cha two cooking at today? Outside of noodles and dumplings that is, Po's got that one covered."

Viper came to a stop in the center of the training hall, caught completely off guard by Zhen's arrival. Spotting a suspicious looking dart off to the side that Crane had just shot at her from his cross-shooter in the rafters, she quickly flicked it away with her tail as if hoping Zhen wouldn't notice it. Viper looked up at Zhen, and her and Crane flushed, like Zhen had stepped in on them being completely naked (though to be fair, neither of them ever wore any clothes anyway, well, except for Crane's hat).

"Ah, Zhen, why don't you come in!" Viper laughed forcefully, "here for some Dragon Warrior training?"

"Something like that," Zhen said, watching them suspiciously, "But it seems the two of you are already busy with your own thing, if you want, I can come back later."

"Oh no," Viper said, trying to remain polite, "Don't want to hold up your progress as the next Dragon Warrior. We're just in here doing practice on dodging projectiles, just the normal training exercise."

"Yes, dodging projectiles," Crane added, "Nothing weird about that." His face flushed.

Zhen looked between the two of them, now sure something was up. Viper's expression flinched as she whipped her tail behind her as if to hide it from view, and once again, the female snake flushed.

"Well, whatever you're training at, I want in on it," Zhen said with a laugh. "Mind having a third person? If not, I don't mind leaving you to whatever weird thing the two of you were doing before I came in."

Viper and Crane looked at eachother very awkwardly, then Viper looked at Zhen, "Well, I suppose it couldn't hurt to show you a move or two."

"Okay," said Zhen, somersaulting her way to the center of the training floor. She landed besides Viper gracefully, and looked at her, paws together with respect, eager to learn, "So, what are we doing?"

Viper's eyes shifted away, then back to Zhen, knowing now there was no way out of it.

"As you know, a Kung Fu Warrior always has to be flexible, ready to face and dodge whatever may come their way," Viper said.

"Of course," Zhen said, "It was like one of the first things Po taught me."

"Well," Viper said, face now fully turning red, "It's fairly easy to keep track of where your upper body is, but sometimes in the heat of the moment, it's easy to loose track of everything, and certain... parts of you may trail behind the rest." Viper's eyes shifted ever so quickly toward her tail end, then back to Zhen as if she was pretending that glance never happened. "It's important to make sure your entire body flows as one, that you don't-"

Viper cleared her throat.

"Anyway," she continued, "Us ladies don't have weakspots like... the males..." Zhen couldn't help but notice Crane flinching self-consciously from the corner of her eyes, and Viper inadvertently blushed as she remembered that time with Po and the wooden warriors (What's the story there? Zhen hoped to someday find out), "...But there are still some places we'd rather not have a a dart coated in Tien Tsin Pepper powder ending up." Viper flinched her tail behind her again, giving Zhen a discreet grin to help draw her attention away from that part of herself.

Zhen glanced down at her own self and shifted on her own legs slightly to make her own self less obvious. "Yeah, I can imagine," she said.

"Not that anything like that has ever happened to her before," Crane added a little too quickly, "To her or anyone else for that matter, no reason to specify her."

Zhen looked between the two of them, her curiosity peaking, "Right?" She said in amusement. "So let me get this straight, you have Crane shoot darts at your rear end..."

"Cloaca actually," Crane corrected. Viper shot him a this-isn't-helpful look, face clearly burning red.

"And you shake your hinny to dodge them," Zhen shook her own tail end to demonstrate.

Viper looked thoroughly embarrassed now, "That's about it, yes."

"This is something I have to get in on," Zhen said enthusiastically, "count me in."

Viper glanced Zhen up and down, shaking away her embarassment. Though Viper still felt exposed with Zhen's presence here, she felt a renewed confidence in the opportunity to train the up-and-coming Dragon Warrior. Viper curved her body to face Zhen, and glanced her up and down.

"Remember, being short like you are gives you an advantage," Viper told Zhen, "Your body's more compact, giving you less of a trailing end than one of us snakes," she glanced at her tail end self-consciously again, "But it never hurts to practice moving it anyway."

"So Crane is going to be shooting darts at us, and it's up to us to dodge them," Zhen said, "Got it."

"Yes..." Viper said, "Crane is going to be shooting darts at my tail end, and if he hits... a sensitive target..." she flinched at the implied meaning of the words, feeling n*ked just saying that, "...I lose. As for you..."

"Oh, I'm up for anything," Zhen said, eager to start.

"It's just your uh..." Viper cleared her throat and pointed with her tail awkwardly, not sure how to address the subject she wanted to.

Zhen looked down at her clothes, at the light baggy layers that covered her body.

"Oh right," Zhen said, "Your darts can't penetrate these clothes." She hesitated slightly at the knowledge of what she was about to do, then shrugged, "Well, then it doesn't look like I'll be needing these," and then she proceeded to rip off her clothes.

Crane's beak dropped open.

Zhen stood there a moment, testing out the new awkward. "Oh yeah, that's much better," she said, stretching herself out, and shaking of her freed arms and legs and tail behind her. Viper just stood starring at her, and Zhen stopped as she noticed the other two's expressions. Suddenly, she began to feel self-conscious, "On second thought, maybe that wasn't such a..." Zhen felt herself starting to flush, and swished her tail around in front of her, hoping to discreetly cover herself with it slightly, giving a grin to hide her embarassment.

Then Viper began to snicker, she covered her mouth with her own tail to try to suppress it.

"Hey relax," Zhen said, suddenly offended, "Neither of you ever wear pants. Besides, if your darts are going to be as effective as you'd like them to be, I'm better off without any of my own." She was still embarrassed, but at least she could be embarrassed with a point.

"She does got a point," Viper said, looking at Crane.

Crane's gaze shifted awkwardly to Zhen and away, "Yeah, it's just... she has a little more than some of us less mammalian..." He pointed a wing at Zhen awkwardly. Zhen shifted her body awkwardly, trying not to glance down at herself. Yeah, she wasn't like them at all.

"Maybe I better keep thing thing close," she added, reaching down for her tail and holding it up securely in front of her, just a little bashful.

Crane looked at Zhen another moment, then shook the thoughts from his head.

"Admittedly, this lesson is more effective without them," Crane admitted, "as Viper can vouch for."

"Yep, pants, who needs them," Viper said, clearly feeling more self-conscious than ever without them.

Viper turned to face Zhen, not feeling much less awkward at the situation than Crane had, but eager to get on to business.

"Okay, so one thing you have to keep in mind when dodging darts - or anything for that matter - is when you leap aside, there will always be a part of you that... tails behind,(" She was obvious still very self-conscious of bringing attention back to that part of her, ")you can't set into motion all at once, so you have to be aware of what part of you is tailing behind... for instance-"

Viper leapt a few feet across the training floor, swooping smoothly in a long arch over Zhen's head, and landed cleanly on the other side of her, swooping her body back around to face her student upon the landing in less than a blink of the eye, "See."

Zhen looked thoughtfully, letting her tail lower as her interest took over. "Although your moves are quick, because your snake form is so long, where you were is also where you still are," she mused, "Your tail... takes a second to follow."

"Exactly," Viper said, trying to hide the flush at the attention that had been drawn to her tail, discretely wrapping it back around behind herself again.

Normally she wasn't this self-conscious of her tail, but considering the implications of what her tail entailed in this scenario... She tried not to take in much attention to Zhen's own... her eyes shifted away quickly, hoping Zhen didn't notice the unintentional glance.

"Anyway" said Viper, getting back to Zhen's response, "That's exactly it. So if I was where the target was, it doesn't matter if my head's out of the way, I'm still hit. And it's the same for everyone, just not always on the same scale. Crane, ready!"

"Okay," said Crane, getting to his position at the cross-shooter.

Then, Crane aimed at Viper, and fired!

Once again, Viper leapt across the floor, but in the split second after Viper's front half left the floor, her back half was still within the dart's trajectory.

Viper was ready. Just as the dart neared, Viper whipped her tail away across the floor in another direction, spun around, and flicked the dart back at Crane just as her momentum carried the remaineder of her body off the floor. Crane gave a yelp as he ducked, dodging the dart just in time.

Viper's body slapped back down on the other side of the training room floor, victoriously.

But just as she landed, she failed to notice the second dart, coming right at her from behind, her tail still slightly uplifted...

PTFOOT!

Viper went still, she looked back at where the dart had hit her, felt her face flushing... Her eyes flashed to Zhen, but already she could feel the heat of the dart building too intense, and Viper couldn't hold it back.

"My Cloaca..." She rasped.

And then her head dropped as she groaned in guttural angst, stretching her head this way and that as if trying to pull away from the heat.

Zhen tried to suppress a sputter of laughter, failed miserably, then fell on her back, kicking her legs and laughing hysterically.

"Oh, you must be so embarrassed!" She laughed, "Let me get this straight, for a female snake, getting hit in the Cloaca must be like getting hit in the..." Zhen stopped, realizing how much of her own... well yeah, she wasn't exactly being discreet in her own feminity, rolling around on the floor like this. She leapt back to her feet and looped her tail back around herself, protecting herself from any further embarrassment. Both of them must be feeling completely n*ked right now, but at least Zhen didn't have to make herself any more embarrassed than she already was; Viper was already hopeless.

Viper was overwhelmed by her embarrassment, she wanted to cover herself, but she had nothing to cover herself with; nothing much to cover, yet she had never felt so exposed. She could only curl into herself and moan. She'd probably have to wet herself to turn down the heat.

It took awhile for Viper to stop moaning.

"I'm not sure if I'm supposed to feel awkward being here," Zhen said to herself.

"Please don't mention it," Viper said, finally recovering herself just enough to flick her tail and send the dart flying away, "Especially not to Po." Wow were those things hot.

"Your secret is safe with me," Zhen promised with a sympathetic chuckle.

Crane, fortunately, had been adverting his eyes the whole time, not sure how to react to the two girls' moments of... well let's say awkwardhood? Was that even a word?

"And so you can see," Viper continued with strain in her voice, fighting past her embarrassment, eyes still watering from the heat of the dart, "Even if you sync your moves perfectly, dodge the attack perfectly, how you land the move can also have a major affect on your success." She pointed to a line painted on the floor, "Let's say that line marked the edge of a fire, or..." Viper winced, "another dart..."

Viper cleared herself from the effects of the last dart, and made another leap, arching over the line, but letting the tip of her tail land directly on it upon landing, even as the rest of her body landed successfully on the other side.

"It doesn't do to complete a successful move and still fall into a trap because you are unaware of how you are landing, you have to be aware of your entire body's positioning at all times or even the best of moves can fail in an instant."

Zhen was paying attention intently now, now genuinely invested.

"So you have to move your body as one, but also as two."

"It's important to keep your center of gravity outside of harm's trajectory as much as possible, and to adjust it appropriately so the rest of you remains as flexible as need be for the given situation. Even as my upper body is moving, and my tail is pivoting, a small part of my center remains temporarily at the start to allow the rest of my body to pivot away from it. I chose that as my center because it was most out of harm's way. My problem is, even with years of experience, I still find myself having to figure out how to coordinate all that right sometimes on the landing..."

Viper trailed off, testing out different positioning for her tail, on how she would place it upon landing. She caught Zhen's eye, and self-consciously swifted her tail back around behind her.

"How about you try," Viper said kindly.

"Alright," said Zhen, absorbing all this, "now show me some moves."

So Viper showed Zhen some moves, it was a bit awkward given Zhen's... outfit situation, but after a few tries, Zhen seemed to have made excellent progress.

"Okay, now we're going to try it with the darts," Viper said after Zhen had begun to get the gist of it, "If, of course, you're up for that."

"I'm ready," Zhen said, rubbing her paws together in anticipation.

"Now, I should warn you," Crane said suddenly from his position at the cross-shooter, "If you haven't already guessed, these darts have been coated in a Tien Tsin Pepper Powder - Viper's idea, not mine," he suppressed a blush, "so you do not want to get hit by one of these."

"Ah, where's the challenge if there's no risk of getting hurt," Zhen replied.

"Okay," Crane said slowly as he loaded the cross-shooter.

And then he fired.

Zhen leapt out of the way, twisting her body perfectly to dodge a second dart, the lack of outerwear giving her body extra flexibility, did a cartwheel, and landed safely out of harms way.

Viper and Crane looked impressed.

"All right," said Zhen proudly, all her earlier self-consciousness forgotten. She proceeded into a few additional flips. "I feel so free. Clothes, who needs them!" Zhen stretched her body forward and looked back as she gave her bushy tail a shake, "Oh yeah, I can get used to this."

"Let's not get too used to it if you don't mind," Crane said frankly.

Zhen quickly sobered up, grabbing her tail and feeling self-conscious again. "Sorry."

Though she had to admit this was kind of cool.

"Nice job," Viper said, nodding at Zhen's skills, "Let's keep practicing."

And so they did, the two ladies jumping and leaping across the room as Crane tried to fire at either one of them, Viper and Zhen fell into a team, flowing with eachother's moments, syncing together and apart perfectly in a way that caused Crane to continually lose track of both of them, unable to form a solid target without getting distracted by the other.

"We got this," Viper said to Zhen proudly.

"You bet we do," Zhen replied.

Crane aimed another dart, shot it at Viper, Viper leapt away as Crane spun toward Zhen, flicking her snakey tail at the dart...

Zhen was in the middle of a cartwheel, her back legs looping off the ground, arching into the air with a diagonal kick, when...

Viper had been so focused on deflecting the dart, she hadn't noticed where she was deflecting it to.

PTFOOT!

Landing back on her feet, Zhen stumbled to a halt.

The action in the room stopped, both eyes turned to Zhen.

"Zhen?" Viper asked.

"Either of you ever heard of tampons," Zhen got out, "well, I'd like to thank you for lending one to me."

And then Zhen dropped to her knees, clutching herself as the heat of the Tien Tsin Pepper dart began to rise through her.

Viper and Crane stood there stunned.

"Are you okay," Viper managed with concern.

Zhen couldn't meet their eyes as she held up a paw, her eyes beginning to water, ears flat atop her head as she tried wince away the heat. She tried to stand up, only to stumble forward a few feet and collapse all over again. "My V*****!" She moaned gutturally to herself, her bushy tail wrapping itself in front of her clutching paws.

Crane was on the boarder of speechless, but then he said the only thing that could come to his mind at the moment, "Wait, isn't it still in there?"

"You think I can remove anything!" Zhen moaned, clutching herself too tightly to use her paws to remove anything. She clinched herself up harder, and collapsed on the floor cradling herself, moaning as she rolled side to side. "UGHHH! How am I supposed to get this out!" Her paws were covering herself the best way they could, but now that all attention was there, Zhen felt more n*ked now than she had been when she'd just stood there without any need to cover anything earlier, she could feel the embarrassment rising through her worse than even the heat, everyone knew where that dart had ended up now. "Oh, my V*****! Hope you're enjoying the show!" She rasped angstily.

Viper raised her tail to her mouth to suppress a regretful laugh, sorry, but unable to help it. "Sometimes, it sometimes helps to wet yourself," she said politely.

"I think I might wet myself anyway," Zhen moaned.

Crane decided the best way to ignore what was happening was to get back to business.

Viper's tail was raised, he barely even thought about it, it had been the target he had been training on going for all day, it was just there. Crane adjusted the cross-shooter, and fired.

PTFOOT!

Viper's eyes went wide.

"Crane!" she cried, shock and heat filling her expression.

"I'm sorry! I don't know what I was thinking!" But it was too late, he couldn't take the shot back.

"Cloaca..." She rasped.

And then she dropped, moaning and writhing in a fit as bad as Zhen's.

"Ughh!" Viper cried, "Why does this have to be so embarrassing?!"

"Well, at least you reptiles don't have any of these..." Zhen clutched herself harder, too self-conscious to finish the thought.

Viper almost wished she had what Zhen had, then at least she'd have something of pride to be embarrassed about.

Crane went red seeing the two ladies writhing like this.

"For the record Viper, I think you are just as feminine, with or without..." Crane realized immediately this had probably been the worst thing he could've said.

Then, despite their pain, Viper and Zhen burst out together, laughing hysterically through their moans as they continued to writhe on the floor. Crane's face went red.

"Thank you Crane," Viper managed, "A lady sometimes likes to feel a little ladylike."

"You know what?" Crane said decisively. He set the cross-shooter on auto-shoot, and leapt down from the rafters, joining the moaning ladies on the floor. "Let's give the male here a chance to join you." He glanced back up at the shooter, hoping he had set the timing mechanism correctly, and turned around, lifting his tail feathers, and bending forward.

PTFOOT!

Crane regretted it immediately, felt the heat rushing through him way more intense than he'd expected.

"This is what you've had to go through?" He gasped to Viper.

"Pretty much," Viper answered, her voice hoarse from her pained laughter. "Glad to have you join us."

"Glad to be here," was all he could manage.

And then Crane collapsed.

And all three of them were moaning, writhing, and laughing together on the training room floor, lost in their mutual embarrassment and agony.

"Skadoosh!" Po said as he burst through the door with a dramatic move a few minutes later.

He stopped in his tracks as he took in the sight of the three fallen comrades that lay before him.

"Did I interrupt something?" he asked awkwardly.

Po! Viper's face went red. Why'd it have to be Po?

"No, you're good Po," Viper strained, managing to be polite through her embarrassment.

"I wouldn't even ask if I were you," Zhen replied, having managed to pull herself back to her knees by now, face still locked in a grimace as she clutched at herself delicately with her spare paw.

"Just some casual training exercises," Crane said.

Then all three of them burst out laughing again as they continued writhing in their shame on the floor.

Po just looked at them one more time, "Yeah..." he said, then slipped back out of the door awkwardly, "I think I'm going to come back after another dumpling break."